The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-23
THE ALTA MURDERER.
Little Charlie" Arrives in
Company With an officer.
THE STORY OF THE CRIME.
The Confession of All Gung-How 1T
Was Obtained-He is a Tough
Little Celestial.

On the Utah Central train, which ar
rived about an hour and half late last
evening, came Mr.. W. H. butcher, dep
uty marshal of the State of Illinois,
and with him An Gung, alias " Little
Charlie" the Chinese murderer. The
officer left Chicago with his charge on
Wednesday evening last, and was on
the delayed Union Pacific train which
was split at Cheyenne day before
yesterday. The gentleman was some
what fatigued on his landing here, and
not in the best of trim for an interview :;
but a HERALD reporter saw him as
soon as he reached the City Hall, and
cleaned from him few particulars re-
garding the runaway Murderer.
The Celestial is a runt in stature, but
cunning and crafty in appearance, and,
as Mr.. butcher remarked, "wouldn t
do to trust" That he is smart, as the
term goes, is evidenced by his expedi-
tlous, getting out OF the way after the
murder. On the Sunday night of the
the mountains to Park City, a
distance OF about twelve miles; from
there he footed it to Wanship. thence TO
Echo, and there took the U. P. train to
Evanston, where he landed at about IL
O'Clock on Monday night, and that
same evening at o'clock, after pur-
chasing ticket to Chicago and signing
it in good English "Ah Gung," left for
that city. He didn't let any grass grow
under him. He reached Rock Island
on the Wednesday following, at about
midnight, where the telegram for his
arrest and the officers to nab him were
in waiting.
Since his arrest, his escort stated, the
prisoner has been as mum as the ira
ditional biValve, concerning his crime,
but otherwise was lively and talkatiVe
until after passing Cheyenne, when he
manifested unusual signs of uneasIness,
and on Friday night did not sleep at
all. Mr.. Butcher had very little diff
Guilty with he murderer, although he
kept vigilant watch on him the en-
tire trip, in the day time, and at nigh;
chained him to his seat while he doSeG
with one eye open near by him.
Regarding the statement telegraphed
from Rock Island, that All Gung had
A4duC q COA1Coo1Ou, Cuc llliuOlS QSpuby
said it was a fact, and added: The
officials at Rock Island put a detective
in the same cell in the Jug with the
Chinaman. who entered into converse
ton with the Celestial, and during the
talk said he was in for shooting e man,
when Little Charlie up and told him
that he'd killed q woman in Alta, for
money"
The officer has with him, among the
papers connected with the case, the
but said he would rather not
give it for publication just now. The |
substance of it was that he killed the |
woman at about o'clock on Sunday |
night; that the woman had asked him |
for money, and upon his telling her he |
had none, she called him s. of b.,
when he grabbed her ard stabbed her |
with miners candlestick until she was |
dead, and afterwards lifted her on the |
bed. He claims that there was no other
person in the house at the time of the |
killing.
About what the prisoner says in re-
gard TO killing the woman for money,
it is said he had but $1.15 when ar
rested, ten cents of which he spent on the |
road for tobacco. He paid $3.50 at
Evanston for his ticket to Chicago, but
JulS AO says uO ODldluGu 1IOu1 q GlIn0-
check for some forty-odd dollars for
work he had performed IN one of the
Little Cottonwood mines. and which
Mr.. Wallace had cashed for him a day
)r so before. 1t is thought that if he
committed the bloody deed for pelf, he
must have forwarded what he obtained
o New York, where he has relatives
md where he was bound when cap
ured.
All Gung speaks English very intelli-
,ently and converses readily about his
experiences here, and among other in
idents he relates what he knew of
he accidental poisoning of Mr.. Wal
aces little boy, at the Continental,
year or so ago.
The prisone was lodged in the City
all last night, and will be taken to the
this morning and confined
u cell separate from that in which the
}hinaman arrested on suspicion of be-
ng connected with the crime is incar-
Grated.